Tonight on CBS NCIS: New Orleans returns with an all-new Tuesday, March 22, 2020, season 6 episode 17 called, “Biased,” and we have your NCIS: New Orleans recap below. On tonight’s NCIS: New Orleans season 6 episode 17 as per the CBS synopsis, “Racial tensions rise in New Orleans when a white NOPD officer shoots a black Navy officer he believed was armed in the middle of a busy street party.”
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A NOPD officer was pursuing a suspect. He chased this man on foot and the suspect managed to lose himself in a crowd. The officer tried to continue his pursuit, but this time he was met with resistance from the crowd and they tried to encircle him. They wanted him to leave. They told him he wasn’t wanted there and the officer became nervous. He tried to find the suspect. He spotted another man of the same height and build. He then shot this person he believed was reaching for a gun.
Detective Ted Bradley killed Petty Officer Third Class Ali Mitchell. He used deadly force because he believed he was in danger for his life and it wasn’t the only thing he did. Bradley also tried to perform life-saving measures on Mitchell. He arrested Mitchell because he still believed he was armed and he put himself at risk by trying to keep Mitchell alive. But Bradley never found a gun. He searched for it and later State Police came in to search for it. This case came to involve NCIS as well because of who the victim was.
Pride arrived on the scene. It was a powder keg. The crowd was saying one thing and Bradley was saying another. Bradley said Mitchell was armed. He believed the gun was still out there somewhere and he asked them to find it. The crowd, however, were saying that Mitchell was unarmed. They were claiming that Bradley shot and killed a man who wasn’t a threat to him. The crowd even suggested that it was a racially-motivated killing. Bradley was white and he killed an unarmed black man.
Mitchell’s had an impeccable record with the Navy. He was on a shot-list to be promoted and his record was clean. The man who shot couldn’t say the same. Bradley has several notes on his record for using his considerable force and so Special Agent Carter made assumptions. He was a new member to NCIS. He was also a black man and he believed Bradley was in the wrong. He knew that the State Police were going to try and paint Mitchell as a crook to get Bradley off. He didn’t think that was fair or right. And so Carter spoke up for the victim.
Carter challenged his team at every move. He reminded them that Mitchell was on a great path and that he was considered one of the good guys. He also went with Pride as they investigated what really happened. They know that Bradley shot a man who wasn’t pursuing. The man he was after was Gerald Young and Young has disappeared. They questioned his girlfriend. Carter had even found a photo of Young with Mitchell which proves they were friends and so he took back to his team.
He didn’t bother with telling State Police. He didn’t trust them and so Pride had tried to give it to them. It was proof of Young and Mitchell’s relationship. Carter didn’t like that and he let his prejudice color his reaction. Carter was automatically on Mitchell’s side. He questioned the black NOPD officer who was on Bradley’s side and so his team constantly had to talk to him. Not that Carter stopped. He kept looking for the truth and he found evidence that Mitchell and Young were best friends.
They’ve been best friends since they were kids. They also went on two different paths and Mitchell tried to talk Young out of the life. He would never have pulled a gun, but later State Police found one and they began believing that settled their case. They assumed the gun belonged to Mitchell. They went ahead with announcing they had a gun before they had run any tests on it and unfortunately Pride was forced to go with them on this. He got a call from Washington. He was told he had to back up State Police because Washington wanted a united front.
Only Pride went on record to say there was no evidence that Mitchell had a gun. They ran an analysis and it was a community gun. It had been passed so many times that there was no way to trace it. This also meant there was no way to prove it belonged to Mitchell. So, the team believed he was unarmed and that Bradley killed him by accident. They also found Young first. They wanted to hear it from Young if he was working with Mitchell and he denied it. He said Mitchell wasn’t in the life. He also said Mitchell tried to get him a real job and that he always turned him down.
Young was a thief. He admitted as much. His friend though wasn’t that and he didn’t deserve to be killed. The team went on to prove it. They found what Mitchell had in his hand and it wasn’t a gun. It was a cell phone. Mitchell was recording the crowd and he even captured his own death. This proved he was innocent. He wasn’t in the life and he was killed by accident. Pride and team proved this and they handed it over to the State Police. The State Police eventually ruled it was an accident. Bradley mistook the phone for a gun and so he’ll keep his job.
Mitchell’s family meanwhile was going to receive compensation from the Police Department Insurance Fund.
Nobody suspected that Bradley would feel so bad that he would resign. It came out of the blue and frankly it was very big of him. He owned up to his mistake. He also resigned because he wanted the community to trust in NOPD again and so hopefully they will.
The team later attended Mitchell’s funeral service and it had been beautiful.
THE END!